The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - 2018-11-21

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12:01 AM

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Q: Do Wookies use human toilets?

Inspired by an article on Deadspin, relevant quote here: I assume there’s an entire EU novel series out there dedicated to Wookiees and their sanitary habits... If there is any place to find out, it is here! The evidence for yes is that, as far as I can tell, there is only one head on ...

star-wars star-wars-legends millennium-falcon

@Jenayah No prob - Drizzt is actually Forgotten Realms, as well.

12:21 AM

Anyone with headphones/able to listen to something for me? I can't figure out what an intro is saying, and it might be relevant for said question

Sadly, I'm getting ready to shut down and head home for the evening.

aaaw

well, enjoy the ride/walk back home :)

eh, I'll just put it in the question

Oh, I'm an American, so I'll be driving home, all alone, in my car (listening to the Steelheart audiobook).

next time drag your cat to work

that'll teach him not to be a lazy butt all day, and you'll have someone to talk with on the way home :D

12:42 AM

@Jenayah What is it?

Conquest - Intro

@Jenayah What do you need from it? The part at 0:57

Basically the guy starts talking at 0:58 but I have no idea what he's saying

I can't figure out the words ._.

@Jenayah I see why.

So maybe he's talking about the book above, maybe he's talking about what's going to happen in the album, maybe he's talking about unicorns what do I know

12:46 AM

Maybe it's not meant to be anything?

maybe

It doesn't even sound like English to me.

Chinese, maybe.

Ukrainian band singing in English, save for an intro in Chinese? Talk about a melting of languages :D

Thanks for taking the time to listen to it by the way

@Jenayah NoPro.

@Jenayah what is Red Hood called in French comics?

12:56 AM

@Alex Ironically, that's the only one that got upvoted.

@CorvoAttano He's simply called Red Hood

Was this answer deleted just for being wrong?

scifi.stackexchange.com/a/154706/100430

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Q: Are there any other episodes of Star Trek that deal with mental health?

Back when the series was produced, mental health was not as widely discussed as it is today. I recently rewatched S5E03 of ST: VOY (Extreme Risk) which shows B'Elanna Torres self-harming to deal with the trauma of discovering that many of her friends were massacred in a battle back in the Alpha Q...

star-trek mental-health

would seem so but can't speak for the people who del-voted

Nor can I, but as far as I know answers are not supposed to be deleted for being wrong.

A pity it doesn't list the delete reason.

1:05 AM

There's wrong and wrong... If the guy didn't use the Polyjuice potion it doesn't become an answer to the question... Kind of

though you can still flag for mod attention

Ahah, homepage is full of Star-stuff

stargate star-wars star-trek

@Jenayah I would argue that wrongness (or potential wrongness) doesn't make something not an answer; it just makes it (potentially) not the right answer.

@Jenayah I did.

@Alex alright, let us now the outcome when it's there :)

@Jenayah Unlikely to be soon. At least two moderators are likely sleeping, another one hasn't been seen in two months.

sure no hurry

Yeah, I can't compete with:

yesterday, by Alex

@Jenayah That was quick for "sometime this evening".

1:12 AM

That result was only dependent of my own actions though

This is true.

Hm, this doesn't address what to do if the duplicate vote failed:

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A: Can I answer more than one question with the same answer?

Posting identical answers to different questions is a bad idea: if exactly the same answer solves both problems, then the questions are likely to be duplicates. (In fact, it's considered such 'suspicious' behaviour that doing so automatically raises a moderator flag.) Posting similar answers, e....

2:15 AM

As in this case:

scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/135878

scifi.stackexchange.com/review/close/135879

2:31 AM

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Q: Title of Poul Anderson's sequel to Darker Than You Think?

Wikipedia's article on Darker Than You Think, a fantasy novel written in the 40s by Jack Williamson, about a secret war between mankind and werewolf-like shapeshifters, claims Poul Anderson wrote a short story sequel during the 90s. Does anyone know the title of this short story? Wikipedia doesn...

1 hour later…

3:46 AM

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Q: Thank You to Jordin for "overlap the viewing of Doctor Who and Torchwood"

Thank you Jordin for the overlap the viewing of Doctor Who and Torchwood & Sarah Jane Adventures enter link description here

doctor-who torchwood the-sarah-jane-adventures

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5:27 AM

@Alex Irony, curiosity, call it what you will.

@RDFozz I'd say it's irony because you'd expect the answer that does not appear on the homepage to be the one that would not receive attention, rather than the other way around.

@Alex I'd call it curiosity, since I had to look at your profile to find it.

@RDFozz Oh, that's what you meant. In that case it would be ironic that that's the one that got upvoted, but the irony was actualized by user curiosity to find what I was talking about.

@Alex ... OK, I can go with that....

6:03 AM

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Q: How were the fake Galleons used to communicate without Harry's?

The workings of the fake Galleon communication system is described very specifically in Order of the Phoenix: Hermione soon devised a very clever method of communicating the time and date of the next meeting to all the members in case they needed to change it at short notice, because it would...

6:51 AM

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Q: Title of Poul Anderson's sequel to Darker Than You Think?

Wikipedia's article on Darker Than You Think, a fantasy novel written in the 40s by Jack Williamson, about a secret war between mankind and werewolf-like shapeshifters, claims Poul Anderson wrote a short story sequel during the 90s. Does anyone know the title of this short story? Wikipedia doesn...

is it right tagging ^

@AnkitSharma No. It should probably have story-identification and short-story.

@Alex done

@AnkitSharma Good job.

heheheh

I was confused so asked here

Nothing wrong with that.

1 hour later…

7:57 AM

@Alex I VTDed because it didn't answer the question. Since Grindelwald didn't use Polyjuice, that's irrelevant to the question, and doesn't actually give an answer.

Also:

> When should I vote to delete an answer?
You may vote to delete answers in the following cases:

The answer is extremely low quality: There is little to no scope for improvement

-scifi.stackexchange.com/help/privileges/trusted-user

Top answer here recommends against deleting simply wrong answers but says that it might be allowed based on the help center: scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3293/…

But anyway, this specific example is IMO NaA.

@AnkitSharma Site flags work better than chat pings. That way, whichever mod is online/active can do it, without any unnecessary notifications for other mods.

As a former mod yourself, I'd expect you to know that ;-)

What was the issue, anyway? I didn't read the whole conversation.

@Randal'Thor avengers tag fix

already done

Good good.

23 hours ago, by Ankit Sharma

Rename request: age-of-ultron to avengers-age-of-ultron

I was offline yesterday, just catching up on pings now.

8:09 AM

Fair enough

Not being a mod means more time to nitpick ;)

8:28 AM

@Mithrandir The argument against that, though, is that it essentially gives high reputation users greater weight to their votes.

True.

In my opinion the low quality measure is not referring to the correctness/incorrectness of an answer, but to the post itself.

9:12 AM

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Q: Impact of Wonder Woman's action on the end of World War I?

In 2017's film Wonder Woman, Diana finally kill real Ares in the end and we got to know later that World War I is over now. But how? How does her killing of Ares impact on WW1? Is there any parallel to this with real World War I? Like impact of Ludendorff's death on World War I? As she did kill h...

dc-extended-universe historical-accuracy wonder-woman

@Babelfish 15 mins

That looks like spam? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/199032/98028

Link is for some detector company

TheLethalCarrot

It is, look at network profile

!!/report scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/53579/…

@Mithrandir Wrong room?

9:25 AM

No, Smokey runs in here as well

TheLethalCarrot

You might wanna report his answers over on Home Improvement too

They link to the same company

I already pinged a Home Improvement mod.

TheLethalCarrot

Jolly good

Account and posts are gone.

All is well then

Out of curiosity did they tailor some seemingly accurate answers on DIY too?

(I mean the SFF one began like an actual GOT answer...)

TheLethalCarrot

9:36 AM

It was one of the better attempts at spam that I've seen tbh

The answers did some at least somewhat correct

Lol

Actually kept me wondering in review so I only DVed before asking for confirmation here...

TheLethalCarrot

Well better than the usual THIS PRODUCT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE, BUY IT NOW, BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT!!!!!!1111111111!!!!!!!!!111111ONE!!!!

The link was odd so I checked their network profile and sure enough same thing on other sites... well one other and a blank profile on another

On mobile in boring class slows the process down too ahah

@TheLethalCarrot Probably why Smokey didn't catch it automatically.

TheLethalCarrot

I'm not surprised it didn't, it did look genuine... at least at first glance

9:42 AM

@Randal'Thor it's watched now though isn't it?

Probably.

You'd have to ask Mith or some other Charcoalier.

Aye I checked Charcoal HQ

s/watched/blacklisted

Just now

S?

replace in Perl, apparently

9:45 AM

I'm sure I've seen spam for the same company before.

Maybe they fired their old spammer and hired a more efficient one.

TheLethalCarrot

It's not my fault they weren't specific enough with how they wanted the spam to work

@Mithrandir I think that's how Perl (maybe JavaScript and a few others too) do regular expressions so probs why

i just know i've seen it like that around the 'net

It did stay up for 20 minutes, pretty good

It did stay up for 20 minutes, pretty good attempt

hmmm

10:11 AM

Hey bonus points for effort

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Q: What if Harry and Hermione freed BuckBeak before the executioner saw him?

I mean, MuggleNet offered a theory (which has now been deleted) that if that happened, Hagrid would have been arrested, the group would have seen Sirius drag Ron to the Shrieking Shack and went after them, Macnair would have chopped Sirius's head off and Lupin would've escorted the trio back to t...

harry-potter time-travel

10:35 AM

scifi.stackexchange.com/q/199034/98028 deleted, but why is the user deleted too? Or is it self-deletion?

TheLethalCarrot

I was just wondering the same thing haha

Great minds think alike

TheLethalCarrot

It looks like self deletion (I think) but not 100% sure

That was a fast one then

TheLethalCarrot

Q got to -4 almost straight away, that's most likely why

Can anyone think of a reason why my answer here was DVed? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/199000/58193

TCoG Q

If anyone's wary of spoilers

10:45 AM

No sé

Mithrandir24601

10:59 AM

@TheLethalCarrot my answer to that question: because they didn't think about any of the plot and so the plot is terrible. Had to say it

TheLethalCarrot

Oh the plot was terrible, jumped around all over the place and left most of what it setup unanswered

@SQB Is there any reason when editing you change inline links to [][text] [text]: link style? That doesn't offer any improvement at all and is more of a stylistic choice... I myself prefer the inline link style

maybe because they think the answer is wrong?

TheLethalCarrot

@Mithrandir except it says the same thing as practically all the other answers but adds in extra detail and quotes... though the DV may come from one of the other possibilities I added I suppose

*shrugs* I didn't upvote because of the suggestion of enchantment

but nice ID

TheLethalCarrot

TBH I personally don't think she was enchanted but there are a few people that think she may have been enchanted and I can see the reasons why they may think that so added it

11:08 AM

@TheLethalCarrot I very much prefer the links at the bottom of the post, for two reasons: it makes the text easier to read when editing (since there are no long URL interspersed), and it makes it easier to see what the outgoing links are. So I always clean them up. It also seems to be the preferred style by SE, since that's what the editor does when adding a link through clicking the button.

Hmm... but it makes it easier to keep track of inline, @SQB - if I want to change a link or something

also, much easier to type out, and it's what's used in comments and chat so less things to remember

I was kinda disappointed I missed the fantastic beasts films in cinema, but as of more recently I feel like that was a good choice. :l

Well, I'll try and remember not to do that on any of your posts, nor on posts by the killer root.

was worth a watch, @doppelgreener - it was just... underwhelming

TheLethalCarrot

TBH I don't think you should be changing it at all, it has no effect on the output of the post and is merely a stylistic choice

Yeah FBs was quite good but it did lack in a few places

11:12 AM

Also, in case anyone was wondering, I think those 4 questions are the only ones that need poul-anderson. I must say I was surprised that we didn't have that tag yet.

@TheLethalCarrot it's a habit I picked up when I still had to worry about the 6 character minimum. And I maintain it seems to be SE's preferred format.

TheLethalCarrot

SE's default format when clicking the add link button.. and even then it uses numbers not words for obvious reasons

And I'd guess the reason it is the default format is because of images requiring the link twice

![image desciption](link)

TheLethalCarrot

That doesn't have the click through though

You can do [![image description](link)](link) but that's just a pain

I think that named links make them easier to track, though. I try to pick meaningful names, such as [wiki] or [isfdb]. If you see something like that in the editor, you can expect a link to Wikipedia or the ISFDb, respectively.

TheLethalCarrot

Sure named links are better than numbered ones but personally I prefer inline links, doesn't mean I'll change a none inlined one if I see it though

11:30 AM

Seems I missed one poul-anderson.

@Randal'Thor I was wondering, can you set the bottom feed for this room to user -637 (MTV Babel fish)?

TheLethalCarrot

Any mod should be able to do that if any of them present want to

11:45 AM

TBH I don't really care about link formatting but the titles could have used a rewording (the latest one at least)

TheLethalCarrot

The titles certainly could, I have some open in tabs to edit when I can

@SQB not technically possible

TheLethalCarrot

Can you rename it though Mith?

@SQB No, I'd need to create a new user and rename that.

But before doing that, we should probably get a better list of tags for M&TV questions to be fed here.

TheLethalCarrot

SQB spent a while fixing them up yesterday haha

That bottom user is for possible id Qs

11:52 AM

I'm going AFK now, but I think this is something any mod can do, not just a local mod.

TheLethalCarrot

Any mod I believe

@TheLethalCarrot ... but the list is terrible atm. M&TV has loads of tags that could be relevant/interesting to people here.

TheLethalCarrot

It had some more tags added but I think he ran into problems with max size

@Randal'Thor Perhaps hash it out on meta first?

TheLethalCarrot

What would you want adding?

11:55 AM

That can be edited at any time, the list of tags.

Re: earlier...

Each feed can be granted a new user, but they cannot be granted existing users.

@TheLethalCarrot Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Doctor Who, ... as many of our top tags as will fit in the box.

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I'm off though, ciao!

TheLethalCarrot

@Randal'Thor They're all present in the feed unless I'm missing something... there are 2 MTV feeds now

Ciao

Though Marvel is there as MCU but I don't think they have a Marvel tag

11:58 AM

OH, there's a second M&TV feed!

Ignore me then. Sorry @SQB.

TheLethalCarrot

Might be worth adding [x-men-cinematic-universe] mind you

@TheLethalCarrot probably add novel tag while it's still up and with your name

TheLethalCarrot

Good point didn't look at the Q

What's this meant to say mind you?

> At the end, the main character is revealed to be head of a government (empire?) than any in the region.

No idea. I know user 141thingy asked about it yesterday but the comment seems to be gone now

@Randal'Thor can probably tell us what user141thingy suggested

TheLethalCarrot

I was thinking something like "to be head of a government (empire?) higher than any in the region."

Or the correct word for higher haha but don't want to add it in

12:06 PM

We can't know for sure though

And OP is long gone

TheLethalCarrot

Aye so haven't touched it

I say leave it as is aye

TheLethalCarrot

FWIW Paul D. Waite fixed up that tag title

Actually both of them

Nice

Meh Earth isn't capitalized

TheLethalCarrot

Making you twitch?

12:08 PM

Does anyone know what the maximum length is for a chat feed URL?

I couldn't find it on meta-meta.

@TheLethalCarrot I'm that kind of nitpicker

@SQB over nine thousand

@Jenayah I wish it was.

TheLethalCarrot

Probably the max length for a URL?

No idea. Haven't tested either.

TheLethalCarrot

Max URL length is variable, apparently, but probably around 2k characters

Though that was what the first Google result said and I only looked at the number haha

12:20 PM

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Courtesy of InspiroBot.

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Q: What happens if a Twinborn Compounds a Coppermind

In the Mistborn universe Compounding takes place when a Twinborn burns a Feruchemical storage, greatly increasing the Feruchemical power within. Now this works simply for most stores like health, which just gives you more health. But Copper stores specific memories, so what would happen if it was...

cosmere mistborn

@SQB that shit is genius ahahah

TheLethalCarrot

Best one I got:

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I vote we replace the Floof of the Day with the Inspirobot Quote of the Day.

TheLethalCarrot

Such as this one?

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Which is pure genius

12:40 PM

xD

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Q: What tags do we want to feed from M&TV?

We have a feed from Movies & Television into our main chat room, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Since the URL for the feed is limited in length, which tags from M&TV are we interested in? Do we just want to sort their tags by popularity and start at the top, adding relevant tags to ...

discussion chat chat-feed movies.se

TheLethalCarrot

~24 mins... tut tut

That's fast for a meta feed.

TheLethalCarrot

I know, I just like moaning at the feeds

1 hour later…

2:08 PM

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Q: Is the similarity between Bane (DC) and Venom (Marvel) a coincidence?

It always appeared to me that DC Comics character Bane and Marvel's Venom show many similarities: both are arch-nemeses for main costumed heroes in their respective comic books, both gain their power from external source called Venom (I know that technically the symbiote's name is not Venom, bu...

marvel dc comics venom bane

@Marvin what O.o really

@Slartibartfast Why infinity war when MCU is already there ?

TheLethalCarrot

The second feed is for current films, so all current films would go there, I just picked some off the top of my head

2:23 PM

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Q: What happened to Grimmson?

In Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The Ministry of Magic assigned the Auror Grimmson to hunt down Credence after Newt refused the task. Later we find out that and after informing him that he had carried out he is tasked with watching over Credence and making sure he comes to n...

harry-potter fantastic-beasts the-crimes-of-grindelwald

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Q: Why it took Thanos 3 years to get to the Space Stone?

Here is the storyline: Avengers: Age of Ultron Thanos decides to do it by himself. Captain America: Civil War Scott Lang is put under house arrest for 3 years. Ant-man and the Wasp Scott's three years are almost over while the Infinity War is passing. What was Thanos doin...

plot-explanation marvel-cinematic-universe avengers-infinity-war

2:52 PM

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TheLethalCarrot

I know

Greetings, Earthlings.

3:39 PM

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Q: Title of a C.J Cherryh Novel Dealing with Hyperspace

I'm trying to remember which book this is in her early novels, unfortunatly my collection is in storage at the moment and I can't check. One of her earlier novels deals with hyperspace and how it makes some people go mad so they take a drug to induce a sleep like state while they travel through ...

story-identification c-j-cherryh

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Q: What was this movie with kids in a strange house around 1997 or before?

I'm asking on behalf of my wife who has remembered seeing this movie for a long time but hasn't been able to find out what the movie was. Here are the key details she remembers about the movie: It was seen on TV around 1997 or before. It involves a boy, a girl, and a baby who are dropped off a...

story-identification movie

3:49 PM

@Jenayah Okay.

4:00 PM

@TheLethalCarrot and modest, even! :D

4:24 PM

@Jenayah Flag marked useful; answer undeleted:

Undeleted: a wrong answer is still an attempt to answer the question, and a wrong answer that's downvoted is a better signal of its wrongness than the answer not existing at all. — Rand al'Thor ♦ 8 hours ago

Alright!

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Q: Why is gold used in latinum based currency?

Gold pressed latinum is a popular form of currency because the latinum can't be replicated. But why is it pressed into gold? Gold is not an ideal metal for currency. It's soft and tarnishes, and it is heavy. Any number of more durable substances are available to contain the latinum, so why gold?

There's a first for everything.

4:55 PM

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Q: Are there any known wizards who 'went bad' that were in Gryffindor?

Ron states: there wasn’t one wizard that went bad that wasn’t in Slytherin But I don’t think it’s true. Are there any known wizards who 'went bad' that were in Gryffindor? I prefer answers from canon. Also I want to know them, and if they were significant to the HP story. Also, what house ...

@Alex I admit I sometimes do a mercy delete on a well-meaning noob's post to save them the down votes. But it's a rare occasion.

@Marvin Peter Pettigrew

5:19 PM

@SQB Theoretically you could just leave a comment informing them that they can delete if they want to. If they have abandoned the site and won’t see the comment then we don’t have to be concerned with their reputation anyway.

5:38 PM

This is my four-digit PIN. It was passed down to me by my father, and someday I will pass it on to you. Unless we figure out how to update it, but that sounds complicated.

6:01 PM

Out of curiosity @TheLethalCarrot what made you edit scifi.stackexchange.com/q/195981/98028 all of a sudden? (I mean the edit is reasonable, but that thing wasn't even remotely close to homepage and I didn't catch you on a radiation fixing pattern) :P

Talking about patterns, [stargate-sg1] -[stargate] is down to 16 questions while [stargate-atlantis] -[stargate] is down to 14 so we can end this smoothly by switching between the two when bumping

yesterday, by TheLethalCarrot

@Jenayah that’d be revealing trade secrets I spent time learning :P

@Alex That's... unrelated, I think

@Jenayah You don't think the algorithm that he uses to decide what to edit is a trade secret?

The trade secrets at stake were review ones

as per what to edit meh to each his own pattern I guess

Reputation notifier is imprecise.

TheLethalCarrot

6:21 PM

Was just the radiation tag I think

ok then

TheLethalCarrot

Out of my own curiosity did you flag that FP that was a comment?

No

Not sure if this is acceptable, but can someone upvote and then remove the upvote on one my answers as an experiment?

I did see Null's comment though

Was unsure as I never watched the series

hence the no-flagging

@Alex alright

TheLethalCarrot

6:26 PM

I just read the first sentence not all of it but considering Nulls comment I’ll leave it

@Alex done

@Jenayah Hm, which answer did you do it on? I don't see any record.

TheLethalCarrot

I think an upvote and unupvote within the grace period shows nothing on your user profile. An upvote and unupvote after the grace period (allowed cos of edit) shows upvote and unupvote... I think

ah maybe that was too fast then

on this one scifi.stackexchange.com/a/199058/98028

@TheLethalCarrot sounds reasonable

you could wreck someone's profile if it wasn't the case ahah

@Jenayah Yeah. If it's not a bother can you do it again, and wait until I confirm that I got the notification of the upvote before removing it?

6:29 PM

@Alex sure

TheLethalCarrot

Alex now waits 5 mins

I upvoted this one instead scifi.stackexchange.com/a/198627/98028

TheLethalCarrot

Alex: “Oh nooooo... the grace period is over”

:P

@Jenayah Thanks! The notification came so you can remove it now.

6:31 PM

removed.

Now I just need to wait for a legitimate upvote to finish the experiment.

@Jenayah Thanks.

TheLethalCarrot

Can someone do an experiment for me?

upvote one post of mine everyday until you’ve upvoted them all... for science obviously

Don't mock the experiment.

@TheLethalCarrot tsssk

TheLethalCarrot

Hey! I’m super cereal, you guys

6:37 PM

You might regret it when you see the Meta post.

TheLethalCarrot

Oh no, what now? :P

I'm just gathering evidence for:

31 mins ago, by Alex

Reputation notifier is imprecise.

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Q: A post apocalyptic book involving the Catholic Church

There was a nuclear war, and these people destroyed books and stuff, and killed people who knew how to read. Than it skips 600 years forward three times and we meet 3 central characters. All these characters were apart of the Catholic religion. Do any of you know this books title?

story-identification books post-apocalyptic

Argh, things are actually more complicated...

TheLethalCarrot

I don’t see how it would be imprecise in this scenario unless you mean cos it doesn’t show the upvote but in that case it would be precise

6:45 PM

@TheLethalCarrot The imprecision relates to how it causes other upvotes to not get shown. But now I have conflicting data.

hey ASOIAF experts... NaA? scifi.stackexchange.com/a/151857/98028

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Q: Does Conquest's album "Frozen Sky" reference the "Forgotten Realms" books?

A while back, I shared a song to a friend, who upon seeing the video's thumbnail, immediately asked me whether the band had ripped off the cover of Jean Rabe's Red Magic (1991), the third novel in the Forgotten Realms: The Harpers books. The song was taken from the album "Frozen Sky" (2005) by C...

forgotten-realms

@Jenayah If you're up for it can I ask you to do one more thing for the experiment? (You're actually the only one here who would be able to do it.)

@Alex alright

I wonder how I'd be the only one to qualify though ahah

Can you accept my answer and then unaccept it when I confirm the notification?

7:00 PM

alright

You're the only one that I've answered a question of.

accepted

FWIW I got the +2 rep right away

@Jenayah Thanks. You can unaccept now.

Conquest - Frozen Sky

unaccepted

Thanks.

7:02 PM

anytime

Your name will be listed in the Acknowledgements.

\o/

@Jenayah You are forgetting:

Oct 9 at 19:22, by Mithrandir

JENAYAH IT'S FOUR AM WHERE ARE YOU I NEED YOU -Alex

ahah

Well technically speaking I was still up at 4am this morning so y'know

7:39 PM

Designopocaplypse on movies.se now

goes to check

eeeew

ugly

pictures in the reel are way too small

and same problem as SFF... Way too much whitespace in he sides

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Q: Short story Aliens visit earth to see if we will destoy ourselves after we discover atomic energy

I am convinced this is by Ray Bradbury, but can't find it. I remember a short story where a family of aliens are coming to watch the earth and see if we destroy ourselves after we discovery atomic energy. They do this on vacation for their entertainment and have done it before with other planets ...

Lol Batman getting owned by both of Superman's parents in the span of two pages in latest Injustice issue

TheLethalCarrot

7:54 PM

@Jenayah appears to be

alrighty

8:16 PM

Some story-id "thank you" comments are funny to read when OP is overenthusiastic :D

That’s it!! Thank you SO much!!!! This story has been on my mind for well over a month now and you have finally nailed it. If you’re ever in St. Louis, I owe you a beer or two! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone! — Michael Lesser yesterday

8:40 PM

@TheLethalCarrot I mean... it rather uploads knowledge into their brains doesn't it?

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Q: YA Sci-Fi book series - Alien ships attack Earth and steal a family, download knowledge into their brains

A series of young adult books I read as a child in the 90s. The basic storyline, I think, is that Earth came under attack by alien ships that feed off our photon cannons, and they steal a family, possibly a ruling family. They also steal the sun. The children who were taken away are made to grow...

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TheLethalCarrot

9:00 PM

I suppose, I just used their wording

9:18 PM

@Jenayah One generally uses the term in terms of one machine vs. a server holding massive amounts of info. You're sending info up to the server, or you're pulling it down from it.

It's the central repository, you're just one node; it has a higher position of authority.

I AM NOT A NODE, I AM A FREE MAN!

9:52 PM

The experiment may have been refuted...

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11:24 PM

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Q: how does hermione granger joined hogwarts?

I need to know if hermione's parents are mugles how did she know about hogwarts at first place, and how does her parents didn't wonder about her school ?

@Babelfish I like the "I need to know".

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Q: How does one change the polarity of shielding on the NX-01?

I've been watching the first season of Star Trek: Enterprise, and on more than one occasion, the crew protects themselves by "polarizing the shields" or changing their polarity. The question that comes to my mind is how does one accomplish this? Also, how does the crew know that the energy weapon...

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11:41 PM

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A: Does Conquest's album "Frozen Sky" reference the "Forgotten Realms" books?

The image in question is a cropped and heavily re-coloured version of 'Red Wizard' by Fred Fields (see below for the full picture). I've found a copy of the exterior of the CD cover which contains neither a credit to the artist nor a link to the licence-holder for the images (Wizards of the Coas...

^ nice catch. I hope the guys reply.

@Jenayah That's the recording we were trying to decipher yesterday?

yeah

well the recording was the intro

and there're around 10 songs in the album

@Jenayah Did you go through all of them?

the songs?

Oh yeah

One of them has comments that mention the stolen art.

11:55 PM

I actually quite like this album, have liked it since I discovered it

(5-6 years ago?)

Oh, which one?

@Jenayah Third one in the playlist.

> Cover of a Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons novel from the mid 1990s. That's just the artist's drawing of a Red Wizard of Thay, washed over in blue. The cover of Endless Power is stolen too.

ugh

great music but flawed ethics if that's true :/

hadn't noticed the comment

Did you go through all comments in all songs? :o

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